From 16-18 November 2012, the capital city of Lombardy hosted a Bookcity celebration entitled Milan: City of Books and Reading.
The program featured more than 350 events, including book presentations, the chance to meet and speak with authors, public reading sessions, exhibits, performances, dramatized readings, film clips and seminars in which many of the authors, performers and cultural leaders from Milan, the rest of Italy and also from all over the world, participated.
For three days, the city was the scene of intensive cultural activity not only in the form of large-scale events but also in the form of many smaller initiatives organized by book shops, libraries and cultural centers throughout the entire Lombard region.